This could make you mad, cause you to shrug, or perhaps induce some other emotion somewhere in between. You might say, “well, sure, of course it does.” Hopefully it makes you think. Dan Pink wrote a post yesterday on the correlation of parental income level and child SAT scores. His post triggered a wave of [...]
Archive for February, 2012
correllation and causation – family income and SAT scores
Posted in education, tagged dan pink, education, SAT on February 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Links for 2-14-12: Mitosis, Wind Farms, and Bee Behavior
Posted in books, ecology, education, tagged animal behavior, bees, biology, bottled water, Connecticut, dan pink, energy, mitosis, mountain lions, ocean acidity, wind on February 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A Mitosis Mystery Solved: How Chromosomes Align Perfectly in a Dividing Cell. via Science Daily. Should You Drink Bottled Water (and other questions for Charles Fishman), by Dan Pink. ‘Mountain Lion’ Spotted at UConn Health Center More Likely a Bobcat, via New Canaan Patch. Rising Ocean Acidity Worst for Caribbean and Pacific, via ENN.com. World’s [...]
Assorted Links 2-7-12
Posted in books, education, music, science, tagged brain, Brain Pickings, neurology, open culture, Sapolsky, Shearwater, Teach Paperless, Twitter on February 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
All interesting for different reasons. Another article on the teenage brain, “What’s Wrong With the Teenage Mind” by Alison Gopnik, WSJ 1-28-12: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203806504577181351486558984.html NPR’s First Listen of Shearwater’s new album “Animal Joy,” which comes out next week. Thanks, Paul for the link: http://www.npr.org/2012/02/05/146083321/first-listen-shearwater-animal-joy?ft=1&f=1039 Free Stamford course on human behavioral biology by Richard Sapolsky. A fascinating course, [...]
